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BY 

AWCOB STRAUSS 

(Charles Follen Adams.) 


L. Prang & 

BOSTON, MASS., 

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Vas marriage a failure ? 

Veil, now, dot depends 
Altogeddher on how you look 

at it, mine friends. 



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Like dhose doul)]e-horse teams 

dot vvou see at der races, 
It depends pooty much on der pair m der traces; 
Eef dhey don'd pool togeddher 

righdt off at der shtart, 
Ten dimes oudt off nine 

dhey vas beddher apart. 



Vas marriage a failure? Der vote vas in doubt; 
Dhose dot's oudt vould be in, 

dhose dot's in vould be oudt: 
Der man mit oxberience, good looks und dash, 
Gets a vife mit some fife hundord dousand in cash, 
Budt, after der honeymoon, vhere vas der honey ? 
She haf der oxberience — he haf der monev. 



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Vas marriage a failure? Eef dot vas der case, 
Vot vas to pecome oft der whole human race ? 
Vot you dink dot der oldt "Pilgrim faders" 

vould say, 
Who came in dot Sunflower to oldt Plymouth bay. 
To see der fine coundtry dis peoples haf got, 
Und dhen hear dhem ask sooch conondhrums 

as dot ? 



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Vas marriage a failure? Shust go, ere you tell, 
To dot Bunker Mon Hillument, vhere Varren fell; 
Dink off Vashirxgton, Franklin, und "Honest 

Old Abe" — 
Dhey vas all been aroundt since dot first 

Plymouth babe, 
I vas onlv a Deutsclier, budt I tells you vot ! 
I pelief, every dime, in sooch "failures" as dot. 



Vas marriage a failure? I ask mine Katrine, 
Und she look off me so dot I feels pooty mean. 
Dhen she say : ^^ Meester Strauss, sliust come here 

eef you blease " 
Und she take me vhere Yawcob und leedle Loweeze 
By dheir shnug trundle-bed vas shust saying 

dheir prayer, 
Und she say, mit some pride: '^ Dhere vas no 

failures dhere ! " 



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